New York, NY: R.R. Bowker Company, (1981). 4to. cloth. xviii, 1656 pages. Foreword by Peter J. Fay, preface, guide to using this work, keys to abbreviations and country of publication, subject area directory. Also includes serial publications. An international index of both books and serials. Foxing on edges. READ MORE about PERFORMING ARTS BOOKS 1876-1981
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 131514
Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1975. 8vo. cloth. x, 558 pages. First edition. Being a bibliography based on collections in the libraries of California State University, Northridge. Over 3400 books are listed. Arranged by subject and having a complete author-title index. Reproduced from typescript. Ex library with markings. READ MORE about NATIVE AMERICANS OF NORTH AMERICA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 7319
Chicago: Newberry Library, 1959. large 8vo. cloth. viii, 179 pages. First edition (Besterman 4789). Catalogue of printed materials relating to the Philippine Islands from 1519 to 1900 in the Newberry. Spine and front cover detached from book block. Inscribed by the author. Very minor water staining to front and rear pastedowns/endpapers. READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED MATERIALS RELATING TO THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 1519-1900 IN THE NEWBERRY...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 77627
Cambridge: Harvard, The Houghton Library, 1999. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, (i), 174 pages. A catalogue from the exhibition held at the Houghton Library in 1999, which celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding. The collection of Harrison D. Horblit was featured which consisted of early photographs dating as far back as the early 1800's. It includes several black-and-white photographs, a bibliography and an index. Slightly sunned on spine. READ MORE about SALTS OF SILVER, TONED WITH GOLD
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(Cambridge, England): Cambridge University Press, (2005). 8vo. cloth. viii, 35+(1); xvi, 64 pages. Edited and introduced by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence. Preface and introduction with bibliography. A facsimile repring of Playfair's work (London: T. Burton, 1801). With graphs and one foldout. READ MORE about THE COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL ATLAS AND STATISTICAL BREVIARY
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 131583
New York, NY: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, (1935). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 105, (17) pages. Table of contents, introduction, bibliography, check list of French periodicals. List of other works by this publisher follows text. Unopened. Covers chipped at edges, lightly sunned at edges. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH-CANADIAN POETRY
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Washington: Library of Congress, 1970. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 313 pages. First edition. 1781 items listed under the subject headings Bibliography, Art, Biography, Civil Rights, Cookery, Poetry, etc. Sunning to spine. READ MORE about THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES, A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2 Volumes.
Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1976. 8vo. cloth. xxii, 501, (5); xii, 591, (3) pages. 2 Volumes. Text in Spanish. Reprint of the original editon (Bogota, Columbia: Imprenta Nacional, 1917-25). A bibliography of literature about Bogota, Columbia, from 1738 to 1831, arranged chronlogically. Prologue to Vol. 1, preface to Vol. 2. Author and subject indices, both alphabetical and by date. Table of contents follows text in each volume. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAFIA BOGOTANA
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Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, (1957). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 170 pages. First edition. One of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship Lectures in Bibliography. Ex libris with markings. READ MORE about THE BOOKS OF A NEW NATION, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 3221
Hastings: R.A. Brimmell, 1967. small 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards, glassine wrapper. 70 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Best bibliography to-date. Spine sunned. READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF T.F. POWYS
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Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology, (1972). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. Limited to 200 copies. With an introduction by A.S. Lawson. Describes the books printed by Melbert Cary at his private press. Soiling to front cover. READ MORE about PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE, AN EXHIBITION JANUARY, 1972
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Introduction by Will Ransom.
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 95, (7) pages. Introduction by Will Ransom. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. Largerly an update of Ransom's work on private presses listing new presses and books published after that 1929 work. Minor cover rubbing. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN AMERICAN PRESSES
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Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1908. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xvi, 208 pages. Two page history. Illustrated. Covers faded. Small dampstain on covers. READ MORE about WORK OF THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF ITS PUBLICATIONS COVERING A...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21910
Washington: Library of Congress, 1987. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 65, (3) pages. A lecture by Ward Ritchie, pioneer bookman and printer of southern California, sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Designed by Scott Freutel, printed by Patrick Reagh in an edition of 1500 copies, bound by Cardoza-James. Illustrated. READ MORE about FINE PRINTING, THE LOS ANGELES TRADITION
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With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. small 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 156, (2) pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition, limited to 1300 copies of which this is one of 1000 of the trade edition. A bibliography of books designed and printed by Ritchie. With a number of title page reproductions. Name in ink at top of free endpaper. Minor foxing to the edges of the textblock. READ MORE about WARD RITCHIE PRESS AND ANDERSON, RITCHIE, AND SIMON
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 7468
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, (1937). 12mo. paper wrappers. vi, 44, (2) pages. Limited to 550 copies. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. 216 items are listed in this bibliography of Rogers; the Morley introduction in 3 pages. READ MORE about TWO CENTURIES OF BRUCE ROGERS WITH A PROLOGUE "B R'S SECRET PASSION" BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
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2 volumes in 1.
Port Washington: Kennikat Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth. Over 150 pages. 2 volumes in 1. Reprint of the 1935 and 1926 editions. The first combined edition of this definitive bibliography of Rogers. READ MORE about BRUCE ROGERS, DESIGNER OF BOOKS With BRUCE ROGERS; A BIBLIOGRAPHY By Irvin Haas
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Brooklyn: George McKibbin & Son, 1949. 8vo. cloth. 16 pages. First edition. A look at these details from the book designer's standpoint. Near fine. READ MORE about SOME TRIFLES WHICH MAKE FOR PERFECTION A BRIEF DISCOURSE ON THE DETAILS OF THE SETTING-UP OF...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13538
New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 384 pages. A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars. Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't..... READ MORE about PRINTER'S ERROR: IRREVERENT STORIES FROM BOOK HISTORY
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918. small 4to. cloth, top edge gilt. x, 105+(1) pages. Besterman p.5477. 1,750 entries in this bibliography. Loosely inserted is a biographical note on Fiske. Covers rubbed. Ex library with markings. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF RUNIC LITERATURE FORMING A PART OF THE ICELANDIC COLLECTI ON BEQUEATHED BY WILLARD...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 43585
(Nashville, TN): Vanderbilt University Press, 1970. 8vo. cloth. x, 62 pages. Introduction, list of abbreviations, table of contents, index of authors, editors, and compilers. Two sections: general and literary bibliographies. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about A GUIDE TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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Revere, PA: Woolmer - Brotherson Ltd., 1986. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xix, 70 pages. First edition. The Samurai Press was founded in 1906 at Ranworth Hall, near Norwich, by Maurice Browne, Harold Marno, and others, with the object of publishing attractive and moderately-priced works of a transcendental nature, chiefly poetry, by young, aspiring, and little-known authors. The Press published 30 books during its lifetime, some of which were hand-printed on the press that was later..... READ MORE about THE SAMURAI PRESS, 1906-1909, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Detroit, MI: Walter Romig & Company, (1945). 8vo. cloth. 152 pages. Preface, acknowledgment, list of sources, list of entries in the bibliography, subject index. Covers slightly rubbed and scuffed at edges. Notations on front endpapers obliterated with marker pen. READ MORE about NEGRO CATHOLIC WRITERS 1900-1943
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New York, NY: Joeseph Patelson Music House, 1983. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 112 pages. Reproductions of 31 visiting cards from such pianists as Arrau, Babin, Cortot, Hess, Johannesen, Pachmann, Sauer, and Watts. Accompanied by biographical sketches and illustrations of their work. READ MORE about VISITING CARDS OF PIANISTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF F.C. SCHANG WITH COMMENT BY HIM
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Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1994. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 189 pages. Updated to the 1957 edition, first edition thus. Contains a much more detailed description of presses from the first edition printed by Champoeg Press. READ MORE about JESUIT MISSION PRESSES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF IMPRINTS,...
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 14452
